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 HISTORY 

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N. S.F. Grant Awarded 

 For Meteorite Study 



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r. edward j. olsen, Curator of 

 Mineralogy, whose scientific work for 

 the past few years has centered on mete- 

 orites and the clues they provide to the 

 origin and history of the solar system, 

 will be able to intensify his investiga- 

 tions under a grant of $19,700 awarded 

 by the National Science Foundation to 

 the Museum for Olsen's research. 



In this study Olsen will be working 

 with Dr. Robert F. Mueller, Assistant 

 Professor, Department of Geophysical 

 Sciences at the University of Chicago. 



The Museum, with more than 1,600 

 samples, has the largest meteorite col- 

 lection in the United States. Fragments 

 of nameless planets that have collided in 

 the asteroid belt circling the sun between 

 Mars and Jupiter, meteorites range in 

 size from grains of dust to 60-ton mon- 

 sters. 



With the support of the NSF grant, 

 Olsen and Mueller will analyze the dis- 

 tribution of chemical elements occurring 

 in meteorites between clusters of closely 

 associated minerals. Some of these min- 

 erals are found on earth while others are 

 not known from our globe. The distri- 

 bution patterns of the chemical elements 

 were affected by the maximum temper- 

 atures and pressures attained when the 

 meteorite's parent planet was formed. 

 Dr. Olsen holds that, by analyzing the 

 observed distributions and applying suit- 

 able theory, it should be possible to re- 

 construct the temperatures and pressures 

 that originally prevailed. These data 

 should reveal a further glimpse into the 

 history of planets early in the life of our 

 solar system. 



Journey Awards 



JL he Raymond Foundation's Journey 

 program for youngsters, now in its eighth 

 year, can point with pride to a credit- 

 able harvest of young Museum "explor- 

 ers" when it comes time to present 



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awards to boys and girls who have com- 

 pleted certain required numbers of 

 Journeys. 



At the fall awards program held last 

 month, 90 youngsters were honored on 

 the stage of the James Simpson Theatre 

 for various levels of achievement in the 

 Journey program. Award certificates 

 are presented for finishing from four to 

 1 7 Journeys. With only four Journeys 

 offered each year, young people who 

 have 17 to their credit — which is the 

 highest level of achievement in the pro- 

 gram — have been actively engaged in 

 "journeying" for more than four years. 



Four young people qualified in that 

 top category this fall and have been wel- 

 comed into the Museum's Discoverers' 

 Club. They are : Susan Jane Helfrich, 

 Ralph C. Gushard, Joel S. Kanter, and 

 Keith H. Sutton. As members of the 

 Club they are entitled to a number of 

 Museum privileges, including a free sub- 

 scription to the Bulletin. 



In other categories of achievement 

 there were: 13 Beaglers (16 Journeys 

 completed); nine Explorers (12 Jour- 

 neys completed); 27 Adventurers (eight 

 Journeys completed); and 37 Travelers 

 (four Journeys completed). 



Those in attendance at the awards 

 program were entertained by John 

 Moyer, in charge of the Museum's Divi- 

 sion of Motion Pictures, who presented 

 a film and lecture on the people and 

 wild animals of India. 



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Nature Photo 

 Exhibit Deadline 



"eadline for entries to the 19th Chi- 

 cago International Exhibition of Nature 

 Photography is January 13, 1964. The 

 competitive exhibition, sponsored by 

 Chicago Natural History Museum and 

 the Chicago Nature Camera Club, will 

 be on display at the Museum from Feb- 

 ruary 1 through February 23. Slides 

 chosen as the best of hundreds of ex- 

 pected entries will be projected in the 

 Museum's James Simpson Theatre on 

 two Sundays, February 2 and Febru- 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



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Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Lester Armour 

 Wm. McCormick Blair 

 Bowen Blair 

 Walter J. Cummings 

 Joseph N. Field 

 Marshall Field, Jr. 

 Stanley Field 

 Clifford C. Gregg 

 Samuel Insult, Jr. 

 Henry P. Isham 

 William V. Kahler 



Hughston M. McBain 

 J. Roscoe Miller 

 William H. Mitchell 

 James L. Palmer 

 John T. Pirie, Jr. 

 John Shedd Reed 

 John G. Searle 

 John M. Simpson 

 Edward Byron Smith 

 Louis Ware 

 J. Howard Wood 



OFFICERS 

 Stanley Field, Chairman of the Board 



Clifford C. Gregg, President 



James L. Palmer, First Vice-President 



Joseph N. Field, Second Vice-President 



Bowen Blair, Third Vice-President 



Edward Byron Smith, Treasurer 



E. Leland Webber, Secretary 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 E. Leland Webber, Director of the Museum 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology 



John R. Millar, Chief Curator of Botany 



Rainer Zangerl, Chief Curator of Geology 



Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 Paula R. Nelson, Public Relations Counsel 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR 

 Marilyn J. Arado, Associate in Public Relations 



Members are requested to inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



ary 9, at 2:30 p.m. 



A panel of five judges is responsible 

 for selecting the photographs and slides 

 featured in the exhibition, and for as- 

 signing awards to the most outstanding 

 entries. Included on the panel are two 

 Museum curators : Dr. Edward J. Olsen, 

 Curator of Mineralogy, and Dr. Patricio 

 Ponce de Leon, Assistant Curator of 

 Cryptogamic Botany. The other judges 

 are photographers Mildred A. Glueck, 

 Frank G. Zelenka, and Karl E. Bartel, 

 who is also well known as a naturalist 

 and lecturer. 



The exhibition comprises two major 

 divisions, prints and transparencies, with 

 the number of entries per person re- 

 stricted to no more than four in each 

 division. An entry fee of one dollar, 

 plus return postage, is required for each 

 division, so that if a photographer wishes 

 to submit both prints and slides, he must 

 pay a fee of two dollars. 



